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Hugh McIlvanney: The Voice of Sport: Leeds in swamp of delusion

As each passing day makes Leeds United look less like a football club, more like an asylum for the criminally inane, those charged with adequately filling the vacant post of team manager should perhaps be thinking not of advertising but of kidnapping. Who can believe that anybody carrying substantial credentials would volunteer to become entangled with the nightmare finances and devastated morale of Leeds? This is an organisation so comprehensively discredited that the strongest incentive for joining it would be the prospect of leaving with the kind of compensation showered on recently departed managers and players. If belated recognition of the fiscal horrors that have developed at Elland Road prohibits linking a new appointment with high wages and lucrative escape clauses, managing there will strike most of the men the board might covet as having all the appeal of ditch-digging in a malarial swamp.